Fanaticism Quote by George Santayana Download Open image ““Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.”” — George Santayana ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Consists Redoubling Fanaticism Fanaticism Consists Forgotten Aim Redoubling Efforts
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“Just be careful that your determination doesn’t turn into your fanaticism.” — Art Hochberg Copy Share Image
“Fanaticism must be put to death and allow reason to prevail over ignorance.” — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
One of the things you hear about when studying the nature of fanaticism is that a lot of the time, people don't start as… — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
“If a man happen to take it into his head to assassinate with his own hands, or with the sword of justice, those whom… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
“Modern fanaticism thrives in proportion to the quanitity of contradictions and nonsense it poures down the throats of the gaping multitude, and the jargon… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The alternative to fanaticism and to death is not some miraculous realization that someone has been wrong and he has to apologize. No, the… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Fanaticism is the death of conversation. We do not gossip with a candidate for martyrdom. What are we to say to someone who refuses… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“It is the forgetfulness of these principles which as made for the anarchy in thinking in so much of the anemic philosophy of our… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“The contemporary world has turned its back on the attempt and even on the desire to live reasonably.” — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The pride of the artisan in his art and its uses is pride in himself...It is in his skill and ability to make things… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Towers in a modern town are a frill and a survival; they seem like the raised hands of the various churches, afraid of being… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Experience is a mere whiff or rumble, produced by enormously complex and ill-deciphered causes of experience; and in the other direction, experience is a… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Motherland is our property and we have right to handle our properties as pleased. The jokes about death for the sake of the motherland… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Your best friends are your principles, if you havent them, dont look for another friend. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
One would think that a system loaded with such gross and vulgar absurdities as Scripture religion is could never have obtained credit; yet we… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
A strong saying is not afraid of criticism, because it includes all the answers to criticism. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
“Fanatics are those who, when following a doctrine becomes inconvenient, make up rules of their own.” — Cathryn Louis Copy Share Image
Critics of the war plans (including myself) have pointed to the disastrous political results that must be expected: Iraq would break into three parts… — Uri Avnery Copy Share Image
Very often, fanaticism begins at home. It begins inside the family. It begins with the urge to change our kin, to change our beloved… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Every isolated passion, is, in isolation, insane; sanity may be defined as synthesis of insanities. Every dominant passion generates a dominant fear, the fear… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
[Friedrich] Nietzsche said something marvellous, he said "Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty", and this is fanaticism. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image